The boot sequence ends once the raspberry firmware version
lights up on the screen. I do not reach beyond this point. The
FDE with a passphrase I have not tried out so far, since it is
rather impracticable for a server setup.
On 13.01.21 00:08, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:42:03PM +0100, Stefan Sperling wrote:
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:14:34PM +0100, Dennis Nuesser wrote:
Hello,
thanks to those of you working on the arm64 port of OpenBSD, as well as
working
on this great OS as a whole!
I spend a couple of days now trying to get a FDE install of OpenBSD 6.8
working without
success. I tried different methods, hence, my knowledge about the boot
process on
aarch64/arm64 architecture is limited, so it is for x86 I'm afraid. The
"error" I receive is
that after a successful install, the boot process won't execute.
Can you elaborate? At which point in the boot sequence does a failure occur?
What kind of failure is this? Do you see any error code or message?
One thing I noticed by looking at sources is that installboot(8) on arm64
doesn't seem to have any softraid support. This indicates that softraid boot
support for this platform is not yet complete...?
installboot(8) needs to patch softraid meta-data to enable booting from the
softraid volume. If that doesn't happen then the system won't boot.
After reading more code it looks like arm64 might actually be getting
away without arm64-specific code in installboot.
Did you try it with a passphrase instead of a key disk?
If that doesn't work either, I'm out of clues.
